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bill Potts as an unquestioned part of classic who part 2

You know what, though? It is really important that Eleven loves kids. Because sometimes it seems that the Eleventh Doctor spends all his time manipulating events, or changing time, or making grand speeches. And when he’s not playing his role as the bloodstained trickster, he can be unbelievably callous to those he loves. 
But then, he adores kids. And in the quiet moments, it shows. He tips his hat to children, he takes them to Narnia, he teaches them the Drunken Giraffe, and most of all he stays for them. He comes back for Amy, over and over, and then he stays on Trenzalore for Barnable. 
It’s easy to get lost in the charm of Eleven, or the destruction, depending on your point of view. But the brilliance of his character is that in the quiet, in the small moments we catch glimpses of, in all his over-the-top inventions, there is a different person: one who gave up years of his life for a small red-headed child, once upon a time.

You would go to hell, if she asked. || (insp.)

I think the reason the “fam” gag throughout series 11 has kind of fallen flat for me is that…it’s unearned. After ten episodes, the group as a whole does not feel like family. Graham and Ryan feel like family, Ryan and Yaz have had a couple of important scenes, and Yaz looks up to the Doctor but…there’s a lot of relationships within the group and with the group as a whole that are lacking. Graham and Yaz did not have a one-on-one scene until episode six, and the Doctor has been more secretive and physically distant than perhaps ever in the new series. There is so little they know about her, and no one really seems all that in a rush to change that.

Everything is kind of at a meandering pace. The tension is kept at a constant low. There has been very little risk for the characters to take for each other to build that sense of family who looks out for each other. The scripts aren’t good at creating scenes that balance dialogue or interaction between all four of them. They are a group that doesn’t feel much like a group.

The Eleventh Doctor never had to refer to the Ponds as his family in the dialogue for us to understand that he felt that way about them, and vice versa. Hell, he and Amy don’t even put the “best friend” label on their relationship until the first episode of their second series. And that’s a good thing, because by then it doesn’t feel like the writers just trying to force a role onto the characters. By then we’d gotten to see for ourselves just why and how these characters meant so much to each other.

We haven’t seen that with this new Team TARDIS as a whole yet. So for Thirteen to constantly call them her fam just doesn’t ring true.

They’re going to pride!!

My favorite time of day!

The Doctor having a chat with a talking frog that was actually a conscious universe was Peak™ Doctor Who.

Kind of how I saw it. While I would have liked to have seen River, the frog, paradoxically, made more story sense because the solitract wasn’t trying to lure or trick anyone anymore. It was trying, in some stumbling way, to express its actual self, so it chose something which signified love and longing.

the other thing i’ve been thinking is that no matter what person the universe could have chosen to take the form of, it would have felt flimsy and fanservicey. i, personally, would have been disappointed. because the doctor has loved so many people. the doctor has lost so many people. to choose one to elevate over the others seems fundamentally against the show’s message. each person the doctor cultivates a relationship with brings something different to their life. and it does a disservice to all of them to bring a lone one back as an artificial lure.

the frog brings me emotions in all of the most painful ways, for reasons articulated more beautifully by oldsamshouseoffic than i ever could. loneliness is the greatest pain i’ve ever experienced, and the manifestation of loneliness as a symbol of love, longing, and deep connection…that hurt. the frog was what connected three people in love and in grief. the frog, in the end, connected the doctor and the solitract in love and in grief. to me, the frog was more poignant than any returning friend could have been. utterly alien and yet utterly familiar. there were things that bothered me about this episode, but the frog, in all of its poetic glory, was perfect.

I wonder what Clara would have been like as Ten’s companion

Actually, the more I think about this, the more I wonder. Because Eleven as Clara knew him was very gentle and very kind and loved kids and so he meshed with who Clara wanted to be very well. And then Twelve came along and Clara gradually became more and more like him—or rather, like herself. But Ten? Ten didn’t have Eleven’s gentleness, and he didn’t have Twelve’s stability either. He wanted desperately to be a hero, just like Clara, and he was very good at hiding his more ruthless persona, just like Clara, and I feel like they would have swept each other off their feet. But they wouldn’t be moderating influences on each other at all. The thing that made Twelve and Clara work so well was Twelve’s basic security in who he was. The only person whose approval he cared about was Clara. And that made Clara very good for him up to a point, because she did care what people thought, very much. And so she softened his rough edges a bit and made him more considerate of the people around him. Ten, like Clara, cared a lot what people thought of him. And so the very thing that made Whouffaldi work so well—Clara’s encouraging of Twelve’s more heroic side—would have been disastrous for Clara and Ten. She might even have encouraged him to save the crew on Mars, and would have ruled right along with the Time Lord Victorious, because their greatest weakness was always the desire to right every wrong in the galaxy. It’s an interesting pairing to consider.

Bringing this back more than a year later because I still maintain that Clara and Ten are basically the same person with extremely similar storylines, only Clara’s (unhealthy, understandable) urge to be a Hero at the expense of all else is actually acknowledged.

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                        - Liz Queiroz.

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The thirteenth doctor is sooo pretty I can’t ♡♡ I really enjoyed drawing her ..°♡ I hope you like it ~

Wow. This is absolutely amazing

thirteen + looking very polite

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